---
title: "Uptime Monitoring"
publishedAt: "2025-11-10"
author: "Thibault Le Ouay Ducasse"
description: "Openstatus provides a global multi-cloud uptime monitoring solution."
category: "Product"
---

```
+----------------+
| Service to be  |
| Monitored      |
+----------------+
      ▲
      |
      |   (Network Latency/Failures)
      |
+-----+-------+   +-----+-------+   +-----+-------+
| Monitoring  |   | Monitoring  |   | Monitoring  |
| Node (USA)  |   | Node (EU)   |   | Node (Asia) |
+-----+-------+   +-----+-------+   +-----+-------+
      |               |                 |
      |---------------|-----------------|
      ▼               ▼                 ▼
+------------------------------------------------+
|                 openstatus                     |
|                                                |
| - Sends automated requests (e.g., pings or     |
|   HTTP checks) from all nodes at set intervals |
| - Records response time and success/failure    |
| - Compares results from different nodes        |
| - If a failure or a slow response is detected, |
|   it triggers an alert.                        |
+------------------------------------------------+
      |
      | (Alerts: Email, SMS, Slack, etc.) 🔔
      |
+-----+-----+
| Your Team |
+-----------+
```


## Why uptime monitoring is important?

Uptime monitoring is your first line of defense to ensure your service is available for your customers. By monitoring your service from multiple regions around the world, you can be sure that your customers are able to reach your service.




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**Uptime Dashboard**

<Image src="/assets/landing/dashboard.png" alt="dashboard monitor charts" />

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**Response Logs**

<Image src="/assets/landing/dashboard-logs.png" alt="dashboard monitor logs" />

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## Why choose openstatus for uptime monitoring?

### Global Monitoring

You can monitor your services from multiple regions around the world. We currently have our probes deployed in **28 regions**.

Check all regions in the [global speed checker](/play/checker).

### Multi Cloud

You should avoid monitoring your services from the same cloud providers you use for those services. That’s why our probes are deployed across three different cloud providers:

- **Fly.io**
- **Koyeb** 
- **Railway** 

### Notification channels

Set different notification channels and **get notified** whenever a not satisfying your assertions or are exceeding the thresholds.

We support:

- Socials: Slack, Discord
- Direct: Email, SMS
- Incident Management: OpsGenie, PagerDuty
- Custom: Webhook, Ntfy

### Status Pages

Automatically update your status page based on your uptime monitoring results. Push reports and communicate with your users during incidents. You can choose to **share response details** on your status page. Read more [about status pages](/status-page).

### CLI

You can manage or trigger your monitors via CLI. We provide a simple [GitHub Action](https://github.com/marketplace/actions/openstatus-synthetics-ci) to run it in your **CI/CD**.

### Monitoring as code

The best way to **version** your monitor changes is via the openstatus CLI and its **`YAML` config**. Additionally, we provide you a [Terraform](https://registry.terraform.io/providers/openstatusHQ/openstatus/latest). Read more [about monitoring as code](/monitoring-as-code)

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**Status Page Monitors**

<Image src="/assets/landing/statuspage-monitor.png" alt="status page monitor details" />

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Check your website's latency

<ButtonLink href="/play/checker">Global Speed Checker</ButtonLink>

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